"The Army's combat effectiveness has soared? It has achieved astonishing battle losses beyond the 2012 exercise!"
"It's a rare high-profile appearance. What signal does it send?"
In the office, Chen Nian looked at the slightly exaggerated headlines of the news reports and couldn't help but laugh.
"You've been pretty cool lately - or did you ask for it?"
Chen Guo on the opposite side replied lazily:
"More or less, it's what we asked for."
"Everything has been done, and it must be explained clearly. Otherwise, if people don't understand, wouldn't it be in vain?"
"When dealing with wolves, you can't be too reserved. If you are reserved, people will think you are giving in."
"It's better to put your words on the table and say it, it will be more convincing."
Hearing his words, Chen Nianshen nodded in agreement.
In fact, he has always believed that at certain moments in the past, he was indeed too low-key, and even vaguely suspected of "compromising".
After all, the world develops in confrontation and deterrence. As a mature leader, you must not personify the concept of the country.
Complex systems carry the ultimate rationality, and the basis for supporting rationality is cold interest.
You cannot expect that your overtures and low profile will win the favor of the other party, because your weak position will lead to further plunder.
In this case, why not speak louder?
People don’t really listen to what you say anyway, they only see what you are really doing.
To put it bluntly, at least we can gain some benefits in the internal environment.
Thinking of this, he sighed softly.
The so-called transformation of self-confidence does take time.
"So is Africa the next target? I thought we would start with Southeast Asia."
"That part of Africa. After the birth of nuclear fusion technology, the value can be said to have dropped sharply."
"Why are we fighting over there? Are we still going to dig for oil and coal?"
"no."
Chen Guo shook her head and replied:
"This step may be a little different from what you imagine. The purpose of going to Africa is not for natural resources or any physical benefits, but to establish an ideological advantage."
"Compared to Southeast Asia, the social structure there is more backward and more suitable for some, you know, transformation."
"Moreover, if the technological generation gap is widened to the limit, the acceptance of us there will also be greatly improved."
"How to say? A model village?"
"Model Island."
Chen Nian instantly understood what Chen Guo meant.
He really didn't expect that his superiors' plans for the future had reached such a high level.
This is not a five-year plan or a ten-year plan. To some extent, it is a century-old plan.
And the purpose of this plan also points to a grand goal that is almost at the end.
"It's really exaggerated. Which countries are you planning to start with now?"
"Excluding several economically developed countries, including Morocco and Tunisia, and excluding black and green countries with relatively conservative religious beliefs, there are only a few left."
"The most likely one is Ethiopia."
"After all, we have the deepest roots there and have established a certain degree of military influence. It is more appropriate as a starting point."
"I understand, no wonder the recent Navy's overseas visit plan has been so high-profile."
Chen Nian couldn't help but look forward to it.
Whose Africa will Africa eventually become?
Maybe it's not ours, but it should and definitely won't be anyone else's.
However, the difficulty of this job may not be as simple as Chen Guo said in an understatement.
To build a "demonstration zone", it is impossible to rely solely on the infusion of science and technology and the improvement of productivity. What is more important is how to achieve a soft ideological shift.
Once things are done too hastily or if there is a fundamental mistake in the direction, it is very likely to lead to a tragedy similar to that of 1960.
——
No, it should be said that in that part of Africa, the situation may be more serious.
They are a force that can massacre villages without any influence from outside factors.
If you really get to that point, it won't be "can't wear glasses", but may evolve into "can't breathe the air coming from a certain direction."
His thoughts were a little far away, so Chen Nian quickly shook his head and put it back.
He put aside these absurd thoughts for the time being and turned to chat with Chen Guo about electric engines.
"At present, our technology integration in electric engines has come to an end. Different from the information I learned before, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation has actually started working on electric aircraft projects very early."
"Just in the first half of this year, they tested a small sports two-seater electric aircraft with a range of more than 100 kilometers - not bad."
"However, the engine and energy storage module of this aircraft are designed based on technology before the emergence of metallic hydrogen, and are not considered advanced overall."
“Especially in terms of electric motor design, it may not even reach the maturity level of the current new energy vehicle field.”
“In comparison, Airbus’ E-FAN project is more suitable for this project.”
"This project was launched around 2010 and covers all technologies including engines, transmissions, complete machine systems, etc., and it is said that it has completed its first non-public experimental flight this year."
"If we can get their technology, it will be a big help to us."
"Of course, it would be better if we could poach people directly."
Hearing Chen Nian's words, Chen Guo smiled and said:
"So what you're saying is, let's figure it out?"
"Yes, what else?"
Chen Nian nodded and answered matter-of-factly.
In fact, if you really want to do this yourself, it won't cost you much to rely on the system to analyze it. But the problem is that the entire technology is still too cumbersome. Just the technical output link may take up one or two of them. month's time.
Now he is no longer the boy who drew the F-22 with his freehand. He has more and more urgent work to deal with, so he has to start considering the "cost-effectiveness of technology."
Besides, if you can get it for free, why do it yourself?
Although E-FAN is not an amazing achievement that transcends the times, there is no doubt that it is extremely inspiring.
In the last life, after this aircraft appeared, various countries launched corresponding electric aircraft projects, the most representative of which was the Yak-40LL developed by the Russian Advanced Research Foundation.
This thing is different from all previous small aircraft. It optimizes the electric-driven ducted fan design of E-FAN, greatly increasing the overall thrust of the engine. Its performance at the Moscow Air Show was quite amazing.
What's more important is that the electric drive engine of this Yak-40LL uses low-temperature superconducting technology.
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So theoretically speaking, Russia can use the E-FAN project to develop the Yak-40LL, but we can’t?
Chen Nian is still very confident in these domestic researchers.
Looking at Chen Nian's expression, Chen Guo sighed helplessly.
"Okay, let's study this - it's not a core technology, so it shouldn't be too difficult."
"However, we have been poaching people everywhere during this period, and the pace is really too fast."
"The superiors also have concerns about this, and it may not be resolved quickly. You have to make your own plans."
"It doesn't matter."
Chen Nian stretched out and replied:
"If things don't work out at Airbus, go to Maozi's place to recruit people - the Chaplekin Institute, and take care of them all."
"You really don't refuse anyone who comes."
Chen Guo said slightly teasingly.
"Then what can be done? The level of technological development has improved, but talent education has not kept up."
"In the past few years, our technical talent gap has been too big, and it can even be said that there is no replacement."
"What should I do if there is no one? I can only grab it."
"Snatch it for use first, and then take our own people with us."
"When our talent gap is filled, we can kick them away."
Chen Guo's expression became a little serious. In fact, although Chen Nian's tone was relaxed, the question he said was not relaxed at all.
Talent gap
Most of the time, a country will have a major talent gap, and the only reason is that the speed of industrial development is faster than the speed of educational development.
The root cause of this reason is often the so-called "technical invasion."
Several technological invasions by industrial countries against agricultural countries in history actually led to similar consequences.
It’s just that for China now, the “invader” has become Chen Nian.
This is an inevitable pain and a problem that must be solved.
Moreover, with the development of nuclear fusion and related industries, this issue has become more and more urgent.
"Do you have any good solutions to the talent gap?"
Chen Guo looked at Chen Nian expectantly - of course, he didn't actually expect Chen Nian to give a once and for all solution, but wanted to hear some answers from him that could bring hope.
However, the first sentence of Chen Nian's answer was completely different from what he expected.
"There is no good solution in the short term - if you ask me to solve the talent gap, we must first solve the issue of educational equity."
"Let's first look at where there are schools in the country that are not connected to the Internet. After we have solved the problems of the Internet and multimedia, and put together the channels for obtaining information, we can then talk about other things."
"Indeed. I will discuss this with my superiors."
Chen Guo's expression was a little heavy. The unbalanced allocation of educational resources is indeed a hidden pain in this country.
But it cannot be solved so quickly.
Education is a long-term plan. If we want to complete the transformation of education and achieve a talent spurt, let alone ten or twenty years may not be enough.
"However, I have another method that can solve the problem quickly using the simplest and crudest method."
"what way?"
Chen Guo asked immediately.
"Go to AI."
"Go to GAI."
Qatar.
Wang Jiancheng was sitting in the office of the station, typing on the keyboard in front of the computer with a relaxed expression, checking the details of the combat report and modifying the code of the Zhanlu system.
He could be said to be extremely satisfied with the results of Zhanlu's debut.
The operating efficiency of this AI far exceeded his imagination. Even at certain nodes, it not only achieved "process command", but also performed small-scale "adaptive learning", achieving the effect of "result command" .
To express it in more understandable language, in some small-scale decisions, Zhanlu no longer simply formulates strategies based on the success rate of strategies, but splits up a variety of different strategies and conducts them The decomposition and combination formed a mixed probability basis that Wang Jiancheng himself could not understand for the time being, and finally achieved amazing results.
The emergence of this situation proves that Zhanlu AI has reached a very high level of maturity, and even Wang Jiancheng vaguely felt that it seemed to be developing towards a general-purpose AI.
However, he also knew very well that in the final analysis, a few lines of source code in the program were responsible for achieving such an effect. If he wanted to continue optimizing, it would definitely cost a lot of money.
But this is at least a good direction, isn't it?
He is already ready to report to Xinghuo after returning to China and apply to upgrade the Zhanlu project to a GAI project.
This will definitely be a long journey, but at the same time, its benefits will be huge.
Would Spark approve such a project?
It seems that all the previous projects were short, flat and fast.
——
No, it’s not the project that’s short or fast, but the people who do the project.
If it weren't for Spark, who would have thought that room-temperature superconductivity and nuclear fusion would appear so quickly?
Therefore, GAI is not impossible.
Thinking of this, Wang Jiancheng showed a smile on his face.
At this moment, the intercom phone on his desk rang.
The caller came from the headquarters, asking him to report to the command room immediately. Other than that, there was no other information.
Wang Jiancheng stood up in confusion. He couldn't think of anything else to ask him when all the work had been completed.
——
However, this doubt only lasted for a few minutes.
In the command room, he received a call from home.
It was Chen Guo on the other end of the phone.
The other party said to him in a notification tone:
"When it is completed, the affairs in Qatar are basically over. The subsequent finishing work can be left to other comrades in the project team."
"We have arranged the nearest return flight for you. You will take off from Qatar at around ten o'clock tomorrow morning and fly back to China."
"There's no need to go back to Chengdu yet."
"You have to go to the Imperial Capital."
"We arranged a discussion there about the development direction of GAI. The participants included Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and the Shanghai Jiao Tong Intelligent Research Institute. The organizer was the Institute of Automation."
"You need to give them a lecture on the principles of Zhanlu."
"Desensitization is needed."
"Someone will inform you of the specific arrangements when you arrive in the Imperial Capital."
After hearing Chen Guo's words, every cell in Wang Jiancheng's body couldn't help but cheer.
He knew very well what such a large-scale discussion meant.
The strongest scientific research forces in the field of intelligence in the country have been gathered together. Do you still need to ask what they are going to come up with?
So, he couldn't wait to ask:
"Are we going to do GAI??"
Chen Guo on the opposite side paused for a moment and replied:
"Yes."
"We need to build GAI, and we need to build it as soon as possible."
